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For the first time in its 47 years, sunbaked little Hope, N.Mex. (pop. 300) had a slate of candidates with a platform: "Prove to the world that women are better equipped from every standard to bring order out of chaos . . . women are about to fulfill their allotted destiny." Bonney Altman, proprietor of Altman's Store and Cafe on Main Street, and owner of the local telephone exchange, took a dim view of such talk: his wife was running for mayor, his sister-in-law and one of his employees were running for the town board. "They say they're running on a nonpartisan ticket," said Altman, "but, if I know my wife, it will be the labor party. Believe me, we men will really know what labor is if she gets in." Last week the town's voters went to the polls, by a 6-to-1majority voted the five Hope housewives into office.

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